Description

Data frame containing the results of 26 trials comparing 17 treatments in 4 classes for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (Cooper et al. 2009). The data are the corrected versions given by van Valkenhoef and Kuiper (2016).

Usage

Format

A data frame with 63 rows and 11 variables:

studyc

study name

studyn

numeric study ID

trtc

treatment name

trtn

numeric treatment code

trt_class

treatment class

r

number of events

n

sample size

E

person-years at risk

stroke

proportion of individuals with prior stroke

year

year of study publication

followup

mean length of follow-up (years)

References

Cooper NJ, Sutton AJ, Morris D, Ades AE, Welton NJ (2009). “Addressing between-study heterogeneity and inconsistency in mixed treatment comparisons: Application to stroke prevention treatments in individuals with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation.” Statistics in Medicine, 28(14), 1861–1881. doi: 10.1002/sim.3594, https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.3594.

van Valkenhoef G, Kuiper J (2016). gemtc: Network Meta-Analysis Using Bayesian Methods. R package version 0.8-2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gemtc.